Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Bother at the bridge - part 1

This was another Little Cold Wars playtest game.  I particularly wanted to try out certain previously unused mechanisms - and use some new and recently completed toys!
The briefings and map for this game can be found at the Little Cold Wars Yahoo Group - link.
It's 1979 and WW3 is gathering pace.  A small French force* is guarding a bridge waaaaaay behind the lines.  What could go wrong?

*or should that be a French farce?  You be the judge.
Well this could.  A gaggle of Warpact helis - specifically a  Mi-1 gunship, Mi-2 artillery spotter and Mi-4 and Mi-8 (the latter a Mi-17 actually but who's counting?) carrying the first wave of my newly finished Air Assault Battalion.  Merde.
Luckily the Frenchies have a 20mm AA battery.  And - more ominously - an ambulance...
The mighty Mi-1 'Hare' gunship.  Scary eh?
Both the Hare and this Hip were pre-built models.  Nice though.
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15 comments:

  1. Conrad Kinch20 January 2015 at 22:12

    I shall have to overcome a lifetime of habit and inclination and cheer on the French.

    What is the world coming to?

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  2. Archduke Piccolo20 January 2015 at 22:19

    You cheer for the french, conrad, and I'll cheer for the Russians. Keep things balanced, don'tcha know. but seriously, this looks like an interesting, and unusual, action already...

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  3. Tim Gow20 January 2015 at 22:46

    Conrad Kinch
    The Forbodian Special Police have noted the fact......

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  4. Tim Gow20 January 2015 at 22:47

    Archduke Piccolo
    How nice to have fragmented my audience already!

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  5. Chris20 January 2015 at 23:59

    So what rules are you testing? Or is that top secret?

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  6. Pete.21 January 2015 at 01:25

    Great looking game, like the French AA gun- what is it provenance?

    Cheers,

    Pete.

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  7. Paul Foster21 January 2015 at 07:52

    More please! You had me as soon as I saw the choppers.

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  8. Martin Rapier21 January 2015 at 08:51

    "More please! You had me as soon as I saw the choppers."

    Ah, everyone loves an airborne assault, although in my parallel 1981 WW3 campaign I think NATO are getting a bit sick of air assault battalions and even entire brigades appearing in almost every single battle so far...

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  9. Tim Gow21 January 2015 at 10:09

    Chris
    The ruleset is 'Little Cold Wars' - which we are hoping to see in print later this year.

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  10. Tim Gow21 January 2015 at 10:16

    Pete
    The AA gun was mounted on a 1/38 scale Chinese lorry until I and my blunt knife intervened.

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  11. Tim Gow21 January 2015 at 10:17

    Paul Foster
    Everyone loves big toys.

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  12. Tim Gow21 January 2015 at 10:18

    Martin Rapier
    Having put quite a bit of work into my Air Assault Btl I think we can be sure this won't be it's only appearance....

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  13. Pete.21 January 2015 at 12:51

    Blunt knife and brute force- my level of modelling....

    Cheers,

    Pete.

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  14. Chris23 January 2015 at 15:19

    My bad! I meant, which aspect of your "Little Cold War" rules are you testing?

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  15. Tim Gow23 January 2015 at 19:01

    Chris
    Ah- my mistake. Principally the helicopter and AA gunnery bits.

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